Media Scandals

James Lull is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication Studies at San Jose State University. He holds the first Honorary Doctorate in Communication at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is also the recipient of two Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowships and a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship. His many books include Culture in the Communication Age and Media, Communication, Culture - 2000 . Visit the author online at JamesLull.com.

• Editors. List of Contributors.1. The Search for Scandal: James Lull and Stephen Hinerman.2. Scandal and Social Theory: John B. Thompson.3."And Besides, the Wench is Dead": Media Scandals and the Globalization of Communication: John Tomlinson.4. Anxiety, Desire, and Conflict in the American Racial Imagination: Herman Gray.5. What a Story! Understanding the Audience for Scandal: S. Elizabeth Bird.6. Character, Celebrity, and Sexual Innuendo in the Mass-Mediated Presidency: Bruce E. Gronbeck.7. (Don't) Leave Me Alone: Tabloid Narrative and the Michael Jackson Child Abuse Scandal: Stephen Hinerman.8. Producing Trash, Class, and the Money Shot: A Behind the Scenes Account of Daytime TV Talkshows: Laura Grindstaff.9. Apollo Undone: The Sports Scandal: David Rowe.10. Church, Media, and Scandal: Paul A. Soukup.11. Pushin' it to the Limit: Scandals and Pop Music: Javier Santiago-Lucerna.Index.

"An impressive array of international authors examines "mediated scandals" in a variety of contexts, including the political, the sporting and the religious, and across a number of media forms such as the talk-show, the tabloid and the pop song. This volume should feed, and fuel, the escalating debates about the shifting balance between the "private" and the "public", the demise of traditional centres of moral value and the complex roles that media play in shaping our ethical universe." Professor Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi, Centre for the Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester "Perceptive." The Independent"This is a book to be recommended. It is an interesting collection of essays bringing a variety of disciplinary perspectives, from both Britain and the United States, to bear on the question of scandal." The Times Higher Education Supplement"The right book at the right time ... an important collection of essays." European Journal of Cultural Studies